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Recent Examples of disinclination Members praise – and sometimes complain about – his willingness to listen and his disinclination toward conflict. Riley Beggin, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025 Horowitz’s disinclination to pay his bills has inspired complaints over the years, some on legal stationery. Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024 Its weakness is an intermittent lack of vulnerability and an occasional disinclination to leave all of that behind and pull out individual characters who have figured out that their travails flow from the difficulty of stopping American family life from turning into a Sam Shepard play. Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2025 On the contrary, these works form a trail of historical and imagined personalities, full of desires and disinclinations that misalign. Rachel Vorona Cote, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for disinclination
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disinclination
Noun
  • Other key party leaders, such as Gov. Hochul, continue to express reluctance about Mamdani.
    Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 10 July 2025
  • Trump's comments mark his latest criticism of Putin for his reluctance to agree to a U.S.-proposed ceasefire and for Moscow's continuing bombardment of Ukraine.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • Despite Stine's dislike for the book, Go Eat Worms!
    Jen Juneau, People.com, 21 May 2025
  • His dislike for both Biden’s legacy, and wind and solar energy in particular, seems almost visceral.
    Christopher Helman, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • It's been very difficult to see just how much of this hatred has been normalized.
    Leila Fadel, NPR, 1 July 2025
  • Period drama enthusiasts will be interested to know that Wright set the movie in the late-18th century instead of the early-19th century in part because of his hatred of empire waist dresses.
    Lia Beck, EW.com, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Billionaire Elon Musk on Saturday doubled down on his distaste for President Trump's sprawling tax and spending cuts bill, arguing the legislation that Republican senators are scrambling to pass would kill jobs and bog down burgeoning industries.
    CBS News, CBS News, 28 June 2025
  • Ahead of his first-ever game against the Yankees, the right-handed Dobbins declared his distaste for the team in the Bronx.
    Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 9 June 2025

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